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BNP Paribas blocked employee access to Anthropic's Claude AI models for staff in Asia, joining Goldman Sachs and other banks tightening controls on third-party generative AI tools in the region. The move follows a US exp…
The UK government plans to use AI facial age estimation on asylum seekers starting next year, despite internal reports showing the technology misidentifies children as adults and has racial bias, particularly against Sub…
Meta announced new safety updates for teen accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including 13+ content settings, AI-powered age detection, and parental alerts for suicide or self-harm searches. The updates aim …
A logistics manager at a mid-size distributor discovered that their legacy ERP and a new AI-powered automation platform gave conflicting verdicts on the same vendor invoice, revealing a fundamental difference between det…
AI-powered vulnerability discovery, as demonstrated by Mythos Preview, is shifting from sparse to dense sampling of software attack surfaces, potentially leaving attackers with fewer zero-day exploits. However, the trans…
Attackers are increasingly targeting developer endpoints to steal credentials, as demonstrated by supply chain attacks like Megalodon, TrapDoor, and Miasma. GitGuardian's new Developer Endpoint Protection aims to give se…
Microsoft announced Microsoft Scout, an always-on enterprise agent built on the open-source OpenClaw framework, at Build 2026. Scout operates autonomously with its own Entra identity, integrates with Work IQ, and include…
Developer Keniel built a phase-number check to detect memory drift in AI systems, discovering that large language models can hallucinate with confidence while losing coherence. He argues that understanding and controllin…
Researchers from the University of Oxford and SaferAI have identified security risks in AI coding agents that write, edit, and run software with minimal human oversight, potentially affecting production infrastructure an…
Gallup research finds tech workers who rarely use AI are three times more likely to have been laid off than those who use it at least monthly. The Q1 2026 data shows 31% of tech workers fear job elimination due to AI, up…
City law firms are 'sleepwalking into a crisis of judgment' by over-relying on AI as a definitive authority, according to a report by Positive Group. Over 60% of lawyers now use AI for drafting, research, and client deli…
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) will meet with Anthropic on June 19, 2026, days after the US Department of Commerce ordered the company to suspend access to its advanced AI models for foreign national…
Sigil, an open-source tool for cryptographic prompt security in LLM applications, has been released. It provides tamper-evident audit trails and signed scopes without relying on external servers, using Ed25519 signatures…
A security researcher discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in Firefox's AI chatbot integration in October 2025, allowing attackers to steal personal information such as emails via malicious page titles. The flaw e…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged G7 leaders in Evian, France, to adopt a human-centric approach to AI development, emphasizing the need to empower ordinary people and protect children from misinformation and deepfakes.…
A developer with 20 years of experience warns that heavy reliance on AI tools leads to skill atrophy, where fundamental problem-solving abilities weaken over time. The article highlights how AI-generated solutions can pr…
Kansas City, Missouri, plans to install facial recognition cameras on public buses to identify banned riders and missing persons, sparking debate over security versus privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union warns the…
EPFL researchers released MeditronFO, the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, making every stage of development publicly available to ensure transparency and accountability in AI health…
Researchers introduced CaVe-VLM-CoT, a modular reflection-based agentic-RAG framework that enforces evidence-grounded reasoning in vision-language models through a five-stage closed-loop pipeline. The framework achieves …
Researchers introduced DeFAb, a benchmark for defeasible abduction in foundation models, converting knowledge bases into 372,648+ logically verifiable instances. Frontier language models achieved at most 65% accuracy, dr…